were doing. when they learned they accidentally were kicking out a lot more russian diplomats than the other countries president trump your upset at that. oops. in addition toic kicking out diplomats in in connection wib the assassination in britain was a new round of tough sanctions against russia. the trump administration announced them and didn t do it. slow walked the sanctions for months. only after a round of critical reporting earlier in the summer made three although the trump administration announced sanctions as a response to the skripal assassination attempt they never put them in practice. not until almost a year after the trump administration was shamed into implementing those sanctions but begrudgingly. they put them in effect finally last month. august of 2019 after announcing them spring of last year.
foreign assets akin to the russian spy who we just learned in is week was exfiltrated from russia in 2017 relocated to the u.s. and this week would mistier oisly had his cover blown by a ton of media attention and now as of monday night this week all but disappeared. thank you for being with us. thank you. asking about the track record in terms of keeping people safe. when you look what russia has done recently. the skripal case, berlin case, u.s. intelligence thinks was a russian operation just three weeks ago in the heart of berlin, do you feel russia is getting more willing to do this in places where they otherwise wouldn t be expected, or is this the way it s always been? i think in some ways, both true, because this is the way they ve always been. poisoning of people from the soviet union and russia goes back decades.
organization and incredibly important asset. you know, i m worried, again, that, you know, we have to be have to keep our our vigilance intact, because this man has become vulnerable. can we protect him? we can protect him, and as i said, you know, right now i don t fear any retribution right now bought or two years. what happens in a case like that is you get lazy. you get, security you think you don t need. that s when putin attacks. seen it with skripal and presumably with this chechen guy, years on with their beef. long memories. we have these families and don t want defectors in the united states. if we recruit someone overseas we would rather have them work in place. provide the information they can and when their access ends we
issued by russian government, just not in real names. sergei skripal an ex-kgb officer, he and his daughter barely survived the russian nerve agent and it killed a bystander severely sickening several other in the city including an officer. and following that attempted russian assassination in britain over 100 diplomats expressed from the country and including the u.s. and produced the moment when we learned president trump very upset and almost panicked when he learned that the u.s. was actually expelling more russian diplomats than other countries were in response to the skripal s attempted assassination. trump administration apparently had done the math wrong and thought they were only expelling a sort of average number of russian diplomats. thought they were only doing what all the other countries
has anything to do with them, but, you know you would expect them that say that. a source from german security agencies quotaled, puts a fine enough point on it, if it turns out a state player like russia is behind this killing in berlin we have a secretary skripal case on our hands with everything that entails. when russia carried out that asassation in britain, the skripal attack in salisbury in the uk, that was only last year. doesn t it feel like a million years ago? a year and a half ago. march of 2018. and in the investigations that have happened since then the suspiciously fit, stern-faced very well organized supposed tourists that arrived in salisbury just before the killing and left salisbury right after, they turned out to be apparently russian military intelligence officers, reportedly were carrying real russian passports that were